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 103 STAT. 3012 PROCLAMATION 5955—APR. 13, 1989 goods originating in the territory of Canada set forth in Annexes 401.2 and 401.7). Accordingly, I have detennined that it is necessary to pro- vide for the staged reduction in duties on certain goods originating in the terriority of Canada. 7. Section 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the HTS the substance of the relevant provisions of that Act, of other acts affecting import treatment, and of actions taken thereunder. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the Trade Act, and section 201 of the Implementa- tion Act, do proclaim that: (1) In order to provide benefits under the GSP to specified designated eligible articles when imported from any designated beneficiary devel- oping country, the HTS is modified as provided in Annex I to this Proc- lamation. (2){a) In order to provide benefits under the GSP to specified designat- ed eligible articles when imported from any designated beneficiary de- veloping country, the Rates of Duty 1-Special column for the HTS sub- headings enxmierated in Armex 11(a), II(b], and 11(c) is modified by in- serting in the parentheses the symbol "A," immediately before the "E" in each such item. (b) In order to terminate preferential tariff freatment under the GSP for articles imported from all designated beneficiary developing countries, the Rates of Duty 1-Special column for the HTS subheading enumer- ated in Annex 11(d) is modified by deleting the symbol "A," in paren- theses. (c) In order to provide preferential tariff treatment under the GSP to certain coxmfries which have been excluded from the benefits of the GSP for certain eligible articles imported from such countries, following my determination that a country not previously receiving such benefits should again be treated as a beneficiary developing country with re- spect to such article, the Rates of Duty 1-Special column for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex 11(e) to this Proclamation is modified: (i) by deleting from such column for such HTS subheadings the symbol "A*" in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting in such column the symbol "A" in lieu thereof. (d) In order to provide that one or more countries should no longer be treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to an eligible article for purposes of the GSP, the Rates of Duty 1-Special column for each of the HTS subheadings enumerated in Annex 11(f) to this Procla- mation is modified: (i) by deleting from such column for such HTS sub- headings the symbol "A" in parentheses, and (ii) by inserting in such column the symbol "A*" in lieu thereof. (3) In order to provide for the suspension of preferential treatment under the GSP for Burma and the Central African Republic, to correct the status of a designated beneficiary developing country, to provide that one or more countries should be treated as beneficiary developing countries with respect to an eligible article for purposes of the GSP, and to provide that one or more counfries should no longer be treated

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